This week, the hunt companies, except for Microsoft, are putting out their listings of top hunt footing for 2007.

The listings are, as Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of hunt merchandises and user experience, readily admitted in a for the fourth estate on Tuesday, edited to take adult-oriented questions and deadening queries, like "weather," that turn out perpetually popular.

But as Marie Goeppert Mayer also pointed out, Google listings reflect rushes in hunt term volume and adult-oriented queries generally wouldn't be among Google's top-surging search footing even if they weren't edited because they're relatively constant.

"There's a immense rush in involvement in societal networking," observed Mayer, who noted that three of the top 10 rise footing were for popular societal webs (four, if you number YouTube). Sociable networking land sites also showed up in listings of top hunt footing published by other hunt companies.

While lacking in the freshness value of Google's list, Ask rates particular reference for publication a listing that includes Google (the competition) and for presenting footing deemed too deadening for inclusion by Google. Yahoo's top 10 listing includes YouTube but not Google.